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Show The Money Players! You Tell 'Em I TheyVe the Boys ho Deliver the Goods in Pinch Plays When There's Something at Stak HE t 7 LARRY HEARS DOLLARS Americnn league pitchers would rr.thcr face Bobc Ruth in a pinch thnn Larry Garaner. l-'.c ic said to be the moct dangerous man rt. the bat in either league at present when a hit will brcck up a ball game or a difficult play will save the day. BY DEAN SNYDER. A gpood ball player Ifl one hin. A money player is something else. There ire both money ball clubs and : money ball plaers. You can r.pot tlic-m any day in the almanac when there'9 something at stake. A star performer may carry a liiph batting average opposite his npino. He! may have but few mistakes recorded I in his fielding figures His wcrkman ' ship, boih on the offense and defense, I may be spectacular and brilliant, but j if he cracks in the critical pinch plaj i he doesn't qualify for a money ball player THREE OF 'EM I You can lay your finger on the great jOFt rnone players today without much i skipping around through iho averages i I How ibout Larry Gardner of the In-1 Idlans? liow about Harry Hooper or lli Rei SOX: How about Eddie- Co! j jlius of the White Sox" That's the gang as they stand to-1 day. When a play comes up to them I Ion which rests the outcome of a bat tie thpy will deliver the good? If a hit is needed to score the winning run they will crack it out nine limes out of tn If a bit of super fielding will, I save a game they rise to the occ asion I LARRY GARDNER. The moat dangerous man at ihe bat in the American league right now Is this feljow they call Larrj Gardner. Ask an pitcher in the clrcull Who they would rather face in a tiht hole Babe Ruth, the socking terror, or ! Larry Gardner, th? famed Clevelande; who is like a gold bond when (here's a panic on Wall street. They will an swer Larry without urn emitting a hiccough I Mi ri n cr the Indians Se ptember dnv-toward dnv-toward the house that Jack Pennant built Gardner has showed his money-playing money-playing tendencies in big bank rolls. EDDIE COLLINS. Eddie Collins is just as brilliant as lever, any way you take him. Dangle! ! the old bank ro'l in front of him and I be will play bis head off to get re-: re-: suits Eddie has been in- six world BerleSj and he knows just what pennant base ball means in terms of gold Ufires Gardner has been in three and he is Just as keen tor the lucre. HARRY HOOPER As for Harry Hooper of Boston, hi 'is not getting a chance to play for the! ! big money series this fall, but he: stands out just the same When he ! comes to the bat with s hit necessary I ! to drive in the winning run a sudden ' tenseness comes over the stands. "Ah! jit's Whooper up' Ah! Ooper. Ooper! M, ' ah'" you will hear them whispe.. And "Whooper" generally gets a bas 1 on balls or a healthy base-knock. I That great star, Christy Mat he w son, perhaps deserves the name of binr 'the best, money pitcher Matty could, always take things in Lis own hands at a critical time when there was I something worth while just around the? corner if he delivered THE OLD CUBS. Ira Thomas was also a great source of strength when the critical moments arose in the game Both Chicago teams hae nlwas had a reputation of being money players. play-ers. The Windy City atmosphere I breathes of money. The;, like H The old ubs. wjih Prank nance at ih" head of tbem, was a mi9er club when gunning for the legal tender. Joe I Tinker was one of thell chief queez crs of the silver limousine wheel. Everyone likes money, it's mights handy -uuff to have around But not J everyone can deliver the goods all wool and a yard wide- at the turning point moment SWEET BREAD. The ;nue is true m baseball Some of the present-daj stars play at theii worst when the game hinges on their' hit or i hen fielding pla Others have j the luck not to have the hard break.- i come their way But Gardner and Collins and Hoopet 'seem ro be cast foi the part The aire regular hounds for setting into the sort of plays that call for the break Oi" the same And they don't mis-spell I many words either, for these lads ar-great ar-great mone ball players all of them They like sweet bread. Gosh! but a dollar looks good to i these boys! ' 1 I EDDIE CAN TAST E 'EM When there's something at stake wh.ch involves legal tender, why, Ed die Coll.no is there like a club sandwich at a lap banquet. If thre happens to be a or!d series or sornc'.hing involved, why, Eddie gets right down to business and docs business. |